pirouette

In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

VAR disallowed the goal because they've said it's a careless challenge - but it's not a challenge, it's a pirouette in the middle of the pitch.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025

One had to perform a double leap and pirouette to avoid the leaders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

During so-called learning walks, the animals then explore the immediate surroundings around the nest entrance and repeatedly pirouette around their own body axis with short stops in between.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024

He probably could have impaled Jason several times, but the giant insisted on doing a pirouette with every attack, which slowed him down.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

"I had the time of my life there. It's not a stage-stage school, but of course there's kids doing pirouettes and going 'Aaaaaahhhhh!' in the hallways," Adele told BBC 4 radio in 2022.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

And they’re all on TikTok doing, like, “I’ll do 50 pirouettes for ...” I’m like, “Please, I will pay you not to do 50 pirouettes on TikTok. Please just save your body for the stage.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

For the next 30 minutes, the band are on fire, playing with purpose and swagger while Abigail pirouettes around the stage, dressed like Wednesday Addams playing a character from Bridgerton.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2023

Shortly after launching on 1 July, the European space observatory Euclid started performing tiny, unexpected pirouettes.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023

But the Emperor’s friend covered himself with glory, for he danced everything, whether he knew it or not, and introduced impromptu pirouettes when the figures bewildered him.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Moments before the break, prop Luke Yates pirouetted elegantly past Cooper Jenkins to slide in next to the sticks as Irwin levelled the scores with the boot as half-time approached.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Trailing by a TD, Penix pirouetted out of a sure sack, scampered to the left sideline and heaved a missile that Culp somehow came down with over three Trojan defenders.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023

On a recent afternoon, 18 members of Birmingham Royal Ballet spun, pirouetted and leaped across a rehearsal room, with all the grace and skill associated with classical dance.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

“See how she pirouetted away from that question about honoring precedent — beautiful hideballet there.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2022

Mine explored the earth below both houses, pirouetted around their plumbing, anchored their foundations.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

She did it again on the very next possession, this time coming down from the top of the key, pirouetting into the paint and dropping in the easy two-footer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

Pulling myself up a little taller, I began pirouetting to a waltz from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023

It’s assumed that the audience, without nudging, sees the ridiculousness of showing a genocidal monster pirouetting on skates.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

James Rodriguez stunned the crowd with a sensational strike, taking the ball on his chest just outside the D, before pirouetting and smashing an unstoppable volley into the top corner.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022

Ignatius picked up one of his elephantine desert boots and flung it at the pirouetting figure.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole